The beauty of Programming

Link: https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/academic-information/departments-programs/computer-science/beauty-programming

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I love this post, it propagates the love of programming really well. It shows why someone is so driven and addicted in a good way to programming, it feels like he can create anything. Someone might say, i just change characters in a file and make things happen with the machines. you can be God. On a small scale I love the problem from the Gaussian sum. It’s still hard to explain what can be so fascinating about beating your head against the wall for three days, not knowing how to solve something the better way, the beautiful way. But once you find that way, it’s the greatest feeling in the world. Yes this is the quote I live for and die for, it is the thing that gets me up from the bed each day.

The simple habit that saves my day

Link: https://alikhil.dev/posts/the-simple-habit-that-saves-my-evenings/

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I need to think about it, I somehow waste my evening lying down and consuming news and tech articles. That is not wrong but I need to get the true dopamine by creating something, I end up in the same cycle of exhaustive slump.

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We traded blogs for black boxes and now we are paying for it

Link: https://tekhne.dev/internet-resist

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We are paying for it, true, cannot stress it enough, we are just letting the humanness get away from humans. AI is doing the heavy lifting so that we can do the laundry. Social media is just slippery slop of AI generated mess Being authentic and miserable is more important then ever, feeling human like emotions is the need of the hour.

Why hiring only senior engineers is killing companies

Link: https://workweave.dev/blog/hiring-only-senior-engineers-is-killing-companies

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Juniors with AI tools might be worth more then seniors, because of their adoption and open-mindedness.

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Write the damn code

Link: https://antonz.org/write-code/

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I am just 101% on this. I want myself to start the code, the dopamine hit, the shit show. But AI is there to help, don’t use it as a one-shot thing to create a software wand, it is a great peer, a great co-pilot, you still need to know what you are doing. Vibe coding is basically delaying the shooting yourself on the foot problem. Get involved and get into the zone.

A New kind of Code

Link: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/a-new-kind-of-code

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I like the analogy of glue code, but I don’t like reviewing code. Its skill issue on my side, yes, but I can’t stand reading code, I want to see it, I want to feel it. Generating with a button doesn’t give me any excitement to push forward to get things done. Maybe I am naive, but I don’t like that button. Sometimes yes I do use it, sometimes forced to, but I like to keep nuts and bolt and prepare it myself. I am learning still maybe that is the reason. Can’t disagree to Thorsten, who can write 2 books about crafting programming languages and interpreters and compilers.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Link: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/artists-are-losing-work-wages-and

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This is a serious topic, I have stopped using AI to generate thumbnails for my posts and whatever artistic form I used. Firstly it looks and feels dull and un-energetic. I do respect artists, this might be a disrespect for them to use their knowledge and wisdom without giving them a credit. I feel bad about the writers whose style and wisdom is now in-grained in models like GPT, Llama and Claude and others too.

Be careful with Go struct embedding

Link: https://mattjhall.co.uk/posts/be-careful-with-go-struct-embedding.html

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Yikes, this hurts sometimes. Its just like SQLite, but without guardrails. Golang tries to be too lenient with the inferring the values for a struct and create a bag of unexpected behaviours.

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Brace yourself

Link: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/brace-yourself

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It is always that damn comment. Developers write code, run it, if it works, fine, but if it doesn’t work, then debug it (printf debugging) and fix it and leave, we don’t test.

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How I a non-developer describe a developer

Link: https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner

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This is so funny. I can feel this. Documentation, who writes that. Tests, what are those? We push -f to prod By the way, here’s the rollback script if the production is doomed.

Source: techstructive-weekly-61